LEADERSHIP
Leadership Strategies to Support Digital Literacy and the Common Core
Building the Collective Capacity
Audience: K-12 Central Office, Building, and Teacher Leaders
As both an educator and a leader, you understand that even the best standards fall short without effective implementation. Leadership Strategies to Support Digital Literacy and the Common Core provides practical implementation strategies for immediate application in all classrooms. Moreover, this Academy provides a fundamental understanding of the necessary shifts required in instruction, the power of digital integration, and assessment tools to support students in
meeting more rigorous demands.
Leadership Strategies to Support
Digital Literacy and the Common Core
Building the Collective Capacity
Audience: K-12 Central Office, Building, and Teacher Leaders
AGENDA
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8:30 AM Welcome and Introduction | An In-Depth View of Your Role as a CCSS Leader
Targets for Learning Should be Clear and Visible
The content of the Standards
Focusing on the literacy learning targets
Digital tools to keep the Standards in front
Digital Integration — "Walk the Digital Walk"
What is digital literacy?
Qualities of effective digital integration in the literacy classroom
Examining model lessons
High Leverage Literacy Strategies in All Classrooms
The shifts and your role as a leader
12:00 PM Lunch (provided)
1:00 PM
Promote the Use of Purposeful Assessments in Instruction and in PLCs
What is rigor and how do you get it?
What will students need to know and be able to do?
Planning tools to begin with the assessment end in mind
2:00 PM
Every Student, Every Class, Every Day: A School-Wide Literacy Focus
Beginning with nonfiction writing and vocabulary development
3:30 PM Wrap-Up
Leadership Strategies to Support
Digital Literacy and the Common Core
Building the Collective Capacity
Audience: K-12 Central Office, Building, and Teacher Leaders
LEARNING TARGETS
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I can explain digital literacy and describe leadership strategies to achieve this goal for all students.
I can explain each of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) instructional shifts and identify tools I can implement as a leader to ensure their effective implementation in all classrooms.
I can describe the characteristics of the next generation assessments and how these characteristics should drive assessments in my district/building.
I can identify digital tools to support the effective implementation of digital literacy instruction and the CCSS.
I can explain the importance of digital integration on the learning of students and model this integration as a leader.
I can evaluate the literacy needs of my school and identify effective strategies to immerse every student, every class, every day in literacy.

“Dr. Beerer has shared with us a wealth of resources… that can be utilized with teachers in professional development. She's been able to take something that can be perceived as abstract and make it very concrete.”
Andrew Loiterstein, Principal
Brentwood Middle School
LEADERSHIP: Leadership Strategies to Support Digital Literacy and the Common Core